Werner Vogels talks about scalability and Amazon’s technology platform
One of the podcasts queued up for the drive home last night was a good ‘un; Amazon’s Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels, talking to the audience at Supernova 2006 about building and maintaining a technology platform upon which you and others can rely.
The points that Werner was making sounded very similar to internal discussions at Talis as we continue to grow the Calypso Platform.
To quote the IT Conversations site, where this podcast is hosted;
“Amazon is not a website anymore. It is a platform that enables its customers to develop on top of it. Look at the NBA Store, for instance. From the looks of it you cannot tell that it is built on top of Amazon until you either read the footnote or proceed to check out, which is when you’re asked for an Amazon ID as an option for identification. Even Amazon continuously dogfoods its own services to build products on top of it.
When you’re building a Web application that relies on services developed by a third-party, one of the major factors to the success of your business is the uptime and availability of the third-party service. At some point in time or another, everything can break — hardware, data centers, nodes, computer systems, power backup, you name it. They are all susceptible to downtime. Everything breaks. Amazon does not.”
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